Now criminals are using chemicals to degrade trees — and evade detection. Brazilian state authorities released this drone footage showing chemically damaged forest in the Pantanal, the world’s ...
Photo from Reuber Brandão In a swampy forest of southeastern Brazil, a “slender” creature perched in a tree. Its “large” reddish-brown eyes scanned the surrounding landscape — but it ...
An illegal garbage dump seems an unlikely setting for a holiday story, but when a photojournalist captured 12-year-old Gabriel Silva pulling a Christmas tree from a fetid mountain of trash ...
It thrives in the dense, thickly forested parts of the Brazilian Amazon but is equally at home in denuded areas. Every part of the tree is valuable: Its fronds can be woven into thatch roofs and ...